{"id":613156,"date":"2023-10-28T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T06:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=613156"},"modified":"2023-10-28T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T07:18:40","slug":"pay-%e2%82%b960k-compensation-to-customer-for-delay-kerala-court-tells-indian-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pay-%e2%82%b960k-compensation-to-customer-for-delay-kerala-court-tells-indian-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay \u20b960k compensation to customer for delay, Kerala court tells Indian Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A consumer court in Kerala recently directed the Indian Railways to compensate a passenger with \u20b960,000 for causing him inconvenience, mental agony and financial hardship due to the delay of a train by over 13 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Ernakulam District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission made the ruling on October 18 in response to a complaint filed by Karthik Mohan, employed with a private firm in Chennai. The complainant said that he had booked a ticket on the 22640 Alappuzha-Chennai Express from Ernakulam to Chennai in the hope of attending an important meeting in Chennai. However, the train suffered a delay of more than 13 hours, disrupting not only the complainant\u2019s plans but also causing distress to many passengers on-board, including NEET exam candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The Railways argued that the train was delayed due to reconstruction work at Arakkonam in Chennai division. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consumer court in Kerala recently directed the Indian Railways to compensate a passenger with \u20b960,000 for causing him inconvenience, mental agony and financial hardship due to the delay of a train by over 13 hours. The Ernakulam District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission made the ruling on October 18 in response to a complaint filed by Karthik Mohan, employed with a private firm in Chennai. The complainant said that he had booked a ticket on the 22640 Alappuzha-Chennai Express from Ernakulam to Chennai in the hope of attending an important meeting in Chennai. However, the train suffered a delay of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}